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I have to second the Quirks and Quarks show, it is truly superb

The 2600 group has archives of their shows going back to 1986, there
is a great wealth of hacking and phreaking information under the title
'off the hook', http://www.2600.com/
You can also find other shows produced by Emanuel, like the 'Off The Wall'
and the 'Brain Damage'.

2600 also have organized few different hacker conferences (hope series)
and two most recent conferences have all of the audio online:

http://www.the-fifth-hope.org/hoop/5hope_speakers. khtml
conference from 2004, over 70 speakers, tons of listening material on
variety of topics like lockpicking, hacking, social engineering, spies
and even info on Romania's IT.. First Hope conference to which Kevin
Mitnick showed up to.

http://www.h2k2.net/panels.html
conference from 2002, everything online, also a great variety

http://www.h2k.net/panels.html
conference from 2000, not everything is in mp3 form

the author mentioned audio books, I am not sure what audiobooks he has
been listening to but there is alot of choice, you dont have to listen
to Robert Jordans another WoT 1000 page book, you can pick up an audio
book that satisfies your 'geekinees', here are books that I am waiting
at my library to take out and listen in my car:
- Bill Bryson - A Short History Of Nearly Everything
- Richard P Feynman - What Do You Care What Other People Think
- Richard Wolfson - Einstein's Relativity and the Quantum Revolution
- Stephne Hawking - Breif History of Time

Another thing that the person might look into are abridged books. I had
a chance to listen to the 'Time Machine' that was abridged down to two
hours. He could listen first part on the way to work, and second part
on the way back. It definitelly is different listening to a two hour
abridged book than listening to a 45hour unabridged book.

enjoy

--
/apz, Based on obituary notices: mean and unimportant people never die

Allow me to go the extra step you did not, and point out that the previous HOPE conference, H2K2, has the majority of panels online. So does the conference before it, H2K.

Using these two points, one can possibly plot a trend towards the current conference also making these panels available for download.

When is this stupid argument going to die? It's now totally pointless to try to force the definition of hacker to be someone who writes code and cracker to be what the mass media calls a hacker. Languages are living things and just because Eric Raymond would like to define hacker as it was at one point in time is irrelevant to current usage. Even conferences like H2K are more about hacking in the cracking sense than hacking.

This is similar to trying to argue that the word gay is not associated with homosexual men now; it's time to get over the old definitions of words (particularly slang words) and move on.

Otherwise we'd all be walking around using the word ace to describe things that are currently considered phat.

John.

Do virus writers really go to virus conventions? I'd think you'd find people like Ms Gordon, undercover FBI, wannabe 133t teenagers, and maybe a couple former virus writers out of jail and trying to find admiration.

I care about my fair use rights to copy content for my personal use. I with all of you on that. I DO NOT care about my rights to mass distribute media to anonymous people.

How can they know what you're using personally and what you're giving to 50,000 people on the internet? Answer - they can't. There is no technical way that I can think of determining whether that CD you just burned is just for personal use, or whether you're going to sell it, or what. Unfortunately, since current technologies can't tell the differnece between lawful copying and unlawful sharing, they want to get rid of all forms of copying, essentially throwing out the baby with the bathwater.

Traditional copyright laws do protect artists and publishers, but the MPAA/RIAA does not like the fact that you first have to drag them into court, and give them a fair hearing. For one thing, it's not economically feasable to go after all the violators, and second, it gives them bad PR. Copy protection schemes are simply a way around the copyright laws. To put it another way, the RIAA/MPAA's tactics are to traditional copyright enforcement what the post-9/11 security measures are to traditional law enforcement. They don't want to prosecute people for breaking the law, they want to prevent the law from being broken in the first place. Expect more draconian controls to be set up in both areas.

Remember, copy protection is not the same thing as copyright protection.

P.S. To hear an interesting discussion of napster, mp3 & the recording industry, download this mp3, a panel discussion from H2K with Jello Biafra.(yes, it is legally available)

Go to the h2k sound clips page and listen to the social engineering panel; link. AT&T sends out the exact same notice around the time of every HOPE conference, and HOPE organizers always get it. Woopdie fucking dooda, it's common sense. If you listen to that sound clip, did they not attempt exactly what they were warning about in the notice?

Have any of you fucking nerds been to h2k before? This shit is common knowledge.

buy my clothes here

From the "Beyond Hope" Hacker Conference:
(streaming real audio)

Social Engineering

It was quite entertaining as well as educational.

Another Soc Eng panel from the "Hope 2000" Conference:

Social Engineering Panel

My sources are a special agent from the Florida Department of Law Enforcement with whom I worked on a computer crime case in 1998, and Robert D. Steele, former CIA case officer, founder of OSS Inc., and author of On Intelligence: Spies and Secrecy in an Open World. Good enough for me.

Incidentally, Mr. Steele's excellent talk at H2K is online in MP3 form here.

-Isaac

Jello Biafra was the lead singer of the Dead Kennedy's. Jello is also a political activist and was an keynote H2K speaker.
Now I have a question for you... Ayn Rand (the name rings a bell...)

Right. He was indeed questioned, as the article you link to points out. I heard him speak a H2K this summer, and he said that the government had dropped all criminal charges. I'm fairly confident that I would've heard about it if he'd been tried or convicted of anything.
// mlc, user 16290

Remember that US laws do not apply in Costa Rica. I haven't checked, but I assume that Costa Rica does not have an equivalent to the DMCA. John could probably gain back some freedom by returning to Costa Rica.

U.S. Laws don't apply in Norway either - unless your last name is Johansen.

Interesting to check out the H2K panel on DeCSS and the DMCA - Hackers vs. Corporate America with Emmanuel Goldstein, Jon Johansen, and Macki.

Garbus himself was predicting a defeat.
At least that's what he was saying
at the Legal Panel at H2K.
That was before the trial even started, though.
I think that the trial went extremely well for
the defense (I attended as much as I could),
but will ultimately be decided in appeal.

At H2K this weekend, Martin Garbus made a half hour appearance before hustling off to settle last minute issues for the case today.

He is very well of Kaplan's bias and said he expects that the case will not be won on this level, but later on in appeal.

Robin Gross from eff.org mentioned they intended to take the case all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary (perhaps its time to donate some money to this worthy cause?).

So sit tight folks; don't expect any kind of quick resolution on this one.

--Lomak

"How was the Woz an innovator?", The Woz produced a cheap computer with all hardware specs and software in mind to be an easy to use, easy to program, easy to expand system for the 'everyday computer user'. Yes the altair and IBM and HP and everyone were out there, but there systems were mainframes, they were expensive, they couldn't be built from any electrical enthusiasts spare parts, and they never ever developed into home computers until the Apple came a long.

Wozniak invented a dream and fulfilled it under die dictarzhip uff mizter steve jobs. HEIL JOBS!

haha. Someone should invite the Woz to H2K!!! baby.

In any case, I submitted a proposal to H2k for a presentation addressing the very questions Katz raises in this article. If anyone's interested in my slightly unqualified opinion on this, and you'll be in the NYC area July 14-16, consider stopping by. And while you're at it, urge Emmanuel and everyone else to put me in the program.

Thank yew fer yur support.

B

In any case, I submitted a proposal to H2k for a presentation addressing the very questions Katz raises in this article. If anyone's interested in my slightly unqualified opinion on this, and you'll be in the NYC area July 14-16, consider stopping by. And while you're at it, urge Emmanuel and everyone else to put me in the program.

Thank yew fer yur support.

B